Quotes About England

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

I explained to him - as I withdrew the cup, ripped open the sachet and dunked the tea bag - that tea was an infusion, which meant that it was vital for the water to be actually boiling when it came into contact with the leaves. He looked at me furiously... I had behaved like this many times before: taking Canute's stance in the path of the great surge of ill-brewed tepid tea that was inundating England.

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.

The harlot's cry from street to streetShall weave old England's winding sheet.

England! awake! awake! awake!Jerusalem thy sister calls!Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of deathAnd close her from thy ancient walls?

About 1369 Wickliffe began to preach the faith in England, and his preaching and writings were the means of the conversion of great numbers, many of whom became excellent preachers; and a work was begun which afterwards spread in England, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, Switzerland, and many other places. John Huss and Jerom of Prague, preached boldly and successfully in Bohemia, and the adjacent parts.

In England, episcopal tyranny succeeded to popish cruelty, which, in the year 1620, obliged many pious people to leave their native land and settle in America; these were followed by others in 1629, who laid the foundations of several gospel churches, which have increased amazingly since that time, and the Redeemer has fixed his throne in that country, where but a little time ago, Satan had universal dominion

especially if, as the Scotch would have us believe, there were but a mere handful of people in England until of late years.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungsReceive our air, that moment they are free!They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

These are the gardens of the desert, theseThe unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful,For which the speech of England has no name—The prairies.